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...week of Nationalist victories in China's civil war. Government forces pressed the Communists hard on nearly all fronts, were rapidly driving a wedge between Yenan and Kalgan, the key Communist bases. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces also opened an all-out drive to recapture North China's vital communications network, had already regained control of the important Peiping-Cheng-teh railroad through the seizure of Kupehkow, strategic Great Wall pass...
...press conference in Manhattan, General Carlson and Russophile Singer Paul Robeson, cochairmen of the National Committee to Win the Peace, announced a San Francisco conference for next month to urge withdrawal of U.S. troops from China, withdrawal of U.S. support from Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government. Said Cochairman Carlson: "The only democratic force [in China] is that being fostered by the Communists. People in this country don't like that word Communist; but I've learned it's wise to go behind words and find out about actions...
...long last, the U.S. seemed about ready for a massive decision - whether to get all the way in or all the way out of China. The question: should the U.S. throw its full support behind Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government or permit China (with its nearly 500 million people and vast resources) to become, directly or indirectly, a Soviet satellite? From Nanking came reports that General George Marshall had asked for an updating of U.S. opinion of the Chinese situation and an estimate of probable popular reaction to various alternative U.S. moves...
...China the civil war flamed briskly. It was a week of military setbacks for the Communists. After capturing Chengteh with surprising ease, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's armies were closing in on Chihfeng, last big Communist base in Jehol. Purpose of the campaign: to clear the railroad from Peiping to Mukden and to free from Communist threat the Government corridor from North China to Manchuria. The Jehol offensive also put flank pressure on Kalgen, capital of Chahar province and the Communists' No.1 base...
...week's end Communist General Chou En-lai demanded that the U.S. end all aid to Nationalist China or openly support Chiang Kai-shek in "the total all-out civil war." He attacked particularly the sale to the Nanking Government of $800 million of surplus U.S. civilian goods left in the Far East by departing U.S. forces...